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It was early spring 2017 when a collective impact and community engagement capacity building gathering was held in La Tabatiere, Quebec. This tiny, isolated community of 499 residents hosted more than 100 colleagues from...

The Toronto Foundation, a community foundation focused on pooling philanthropic resources to maximize community impact, released their 2017/18 vital signs report this month. This year’s report, Towards a More Just City, uses...

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CASE STUDY | Calgary’s Financial Empowerment Collaborative plays an important role in the community-driven Enough for All poverty reduction strategy. Working toward achieving the goal that everyone has the income and assets...

CASE STUDY | This Case Study focuses on combined economic and social developments championed by the Rider Poole Foundation in the Greater Lehigh Valley area. Their vision was to create a diverse network of community change...

TOOL | The Cover Story is an exercise that can be used for multiple purposes. The object of the game is to act as journalists whose job it is to capture the highlights from an event to help synthesize and communicate key...

Events

We host amazing workshops, webinars and communities of practices - all designed to make your community change work easier and more effective.

Asset-Based Community Development: For Healthy Neighbourhoods

Kitchener, Ontario

April 17-19, 2018

Asset-Based Community Development: For Healthy Neighbourhoods is a three-day opportunity to learn the fundamentals of Asset-Based Community Development with a focus on Neighbourhood Development and Community Health. Join us in Kitchener, Ontario for a rare opportunity to learn from Cormac Russell and John McKnight, two of the world's top trainers in Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), for their first time together in Canada.

This intensive Masterclass will equip you with the tools, processes and most importantly the leadership practice to make a real and meaningful change, through your own collaborative initiative. When you change how youwork with different people and organizations the system can change with you.

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Vibrant Communities

We develop and support learning communities to help people collaborate, co-generate knowledge and achieve collective impact on complex community issues.

Cities Reducing Poverty

Cities Reducing Povertyis a collective impact movement aimed at reducing poverty for 1 million Canadians through the efforts of local multi-sector roundtables and the alignment of poverty reduction strategies at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.

Cities Deepening Community

Cities DeepeningCommunityis dedicated to developing our collective understanding about the power of citizens and supporting programs, policies and practices that strengthen communities and neighbourhoods and mobilize citizen leadership to enhance social capital.